Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Mohammad Maljoo
Tom Walker wrote: Personally, I think the question can better be addressed through allegory and emblem than through analysis and evidence. Aren’t analysis and evidence a continuation of allegory and emblem with other means? Mohammad MAljoo

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Off the top of my head: Charles Bean's JEL article of a few years ago refuted the idea that making it hard to fire workers increased unemployment. Ormond's book mentions that Europe's work rules have been around for fifty years, and during most of that time their growth rate exceeded that of

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread g kohler
The German employment situation is complicated by the fact of political reunification after 1989, which, in economic terms, was a hostile takeover of one economy (GDR) by another (FRG). Within about three years of the opening of the Berlin wall, about 40% of the workers in East Germany were laid

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Shades of Deirdre. At 11:38 11/03/05, you wrote: Tom Walker wrote: Personally, I think the question can better be addressed through allegory and emblem than through analysis and evidence. Aren't analysis and evidence a continuation of allegory and emblem with other means? Mohammad MAljoo

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread soula avramidis
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Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Devine, James
of tom walker Sent: Thu 3/10/2005 10:02 PM To: PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth Bill Lear wrote: At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- That's Germany's

[PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Charles Brown
At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- That's Germany's problem right now, he said, perhaps with good reason. Is there any empirical support or refutation of this? Bill ^^ CB: Somebody

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Scott Gassler
Right on. At 16:12 11/03/05, you wrote: Robert Scott Gassler wrote: Shades of Deirdre. Yes, and I've been saying this since Deirdre was Don and since before I ever heard of her. Mohammad MAljoo Aren't analysis and evidence a continuation of allegory and emblem with other means? They are indeed

[PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Lear
At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- That's Germany's problem right now, he said, perhaps with good reason. Is there any empirical support or refutation of this? Bill

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-10 Thread Michael Perelman
Duménil, Gérard and Dominique Lévy. 2004. Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) take on this canard. On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:14:02PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote: At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-10 Thread Bill Lear
On Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 19:25:21 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes: Duménil, Gérard and Dominique Lévy. 2004. Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press) take on this canard. Perfect, I shall investigate. Much thanks. Bill

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-10 Thread Autoplectic
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:14:02 -0600, Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- That's Germany's problem right now, he said, perhaps with good reason. Is there

Re: [PEN-L] Worker rights versus growth

2005-03-10 Thread tom walker
Bill Lear wrote: At dinner this evening a friend of mine made the claim that the easier it is to fire workers, the better the growth rate of the economy --- That's Germany's problem right now, he said, perhaps with good reason. Is there any empirical support or refutation of this? I